ABC Roster versions

Manages employees' availability, days off, leave, events, bookings, etc.
2.5
Dec 31, 2018
2.4
Dec 9, 2017
Review
2.3
Jan 17, 2017
Review
2.1
Nov 9, 2015
Review
2.0
Apr 22, 2015
Review
1.9
Dec 17, 2013
Review
1.8
Mar 6, 2013
1.7
Jun 5, 2012
Review
1.6
Sep 5, 2011
Review
1.5
May 30, 2011
1.4
Feb 17, 2011
Review

What's new

v2.1 [Nov 9, 2015]
Improvements
Handling of Unicode characters on exported PDF/HTML documents
Bugs fixed
Changing the UI language now works correctly
Corrected crash when exporting template schedules in employee view
The correct number of pages are exported for PDF/Html schedules
Automated planner: no more crashes when running the auto planner with a schedule that already satisfies specified constraints.

v2.0 [Apr 22, 2015]
ABC Roster is now available in French
Employee schedule tab: Users can choose to view only a specific week
Employee schedule tab: employees’ cost for the schedule is shown
Cost calculation: Users can now specify different pay rates for public holidays, night shifts, and week ends
It is possible to create recurring events
Users can define employee groups to quickly schedule multiple employees to a shift
Excel exports: a new layout, Schedule view, is available
Exports: Shifts can be sorted by alphabetical order.

v1.7 [Jun 5, 2012]
Release 1.7.2 – June 2012
Bugs Fixed
Document Types screen: fixed crash that occurred after trying to delete an employee position.
Main screen: fixed crash that occurred after adding/modifying/deleting an employee when the employee list was sorted.
Fixed application crash due to the Arial font not being installed on some computers
Improvements
Users can now send a crash report after the application crashes

v1.6 [Sep 5, 2011]
Main screen: employee positions are now correctly refreshed after deleting an existing position
Main screen: fixed bug that prevented dragging an employee on a shift outside of their availability
Document Types screens: Fixed bug that prevented deleting a shift type or a position that had restrictions associated
Document Types screens: Fixed bug that prevented deleting a position
Send email screen: Emailed schedules now use colour style and display options from exports
Main screen: fixed crash when sorting the employee list
Main screen: fixed crash when loading data
Main screen fixed bug that caused shifts starting on the previous week (and running past midnight) not to be displayed
Fixed crash when adding new week when the first day was missing and the previous week had an overnight shift on the last day
Conversion: Fixed crash when opening a document from the recent documents menu
Fixed crash when opening a document without any weeks
Fixed issue when trying to remove password protection when the password had not been applied
Fixed crash when creating a new employee for a week and adding it to the template
Shifts can now have an associated location (e.g. physical address, room number).
It is now possible to export/email the schedules for multiple weeks at the same time
Users can now email individual schedules to employees via email
Shift types can now be deleted even if there are still shifts using that type. Associated shifts will be deleted as well
All document employees can now be managed from the Options-> Manage Employee window. This window also allows the user to completely delete an employee from the document.
Users can now choose a custom hour-minute separator (e.g. have 12:25 instead of 12h45)
Users can now associate a profile picture with each employee
When adding/modifying a shift that finishes past midnight, the next day is automatically added to the schedule if it was not present already
The screens are easier to read and more consistent-looking
It is no longer possible to have 2 weeks starting on the same day. If you do have this situation, during the conversion to ABC Roster v1.6 you will be asked to delete conflicting weeks.
Conversion from documents created with ABC Roster v1.2 is not supported anymore
The 'week view' layout is not available anymore for exports
Names and abbreviations for document types, shift names, week names and event titles are now case-sensitive
When selecting previously sent emails, attachments are not added automatically anymore to the new email

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